Lot 1347 , Dickens, Charles - The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. First Edition. Extra - Illustrated copy (bound as 2 vols.). pictorial engraved title, frontis. and 41 plates (by H.K. Browne, Seymour & Buss), half title; re

° Dickens, Charles - The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. First Edition. Extra - Illustrated copy (bound as 2 vols.). pictorial engraved title, frontis. and 41 plates (by H.K. Browne, Seymour & Buss), half title; rebound earlier 20th cent. maroon gilt decorated morocco, rebacked with panelled spines laid down, gilt tops, generous inner gilt dentelles, marbled e/ps. (by C.J. Sawyer), med. 8vo. Chapman and Hall, 1837. * with 142 additional plates (their printed wrappers bound-in end vol.2) by Brook, Frost, Onwhyn & Pailthorpe; the 20th cent. pictorial bookplates of Roy Norr
£300-400

Condition:
Pict. title used for vol.1 and printed for vol.2, vol.1 front free e/p. loose, plts. and text mostly clean, plt. 24 from a later issue, inn sign has Tony Weller, but some flaws uncorrected. Smith (Pt.1) 3. nb. Pailthorpe 24 illus. colour and 24 plain; Brock 12 illus., Frost 12 plt. paper and 12 India, Onwhyn 32; Onwhyn 13 later (colour) and 13 (India proofs)